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From: steveg@umd5.umd.edu (Steve Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multifinder - Just the Facts, man.
Keywords: Macs, uh-oh
Message-ID: <6465@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 3 May 90 14:56:44 GMT
References: <20499@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <8930@hubcap.clemson.edu> <6460@umd5.umd.edu> <222@mtiame.oz>
Reply-To: steveg@umd5.umd.edu (Steve Green)
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In article <222@mtiame.oz> jep@mtiame.oz (Jesper Peterson) writes:
]>
]>Once again, you are underknowledged.  AUX is a System V release 2 compliant
]>but has always had alot of berkeleyisms.
]
]SVR2 + berkeley = proprietary = big trouble.

That is a totally unfounded statement.  AT&T System V relase 4 has includes
some of the very same berkleyisms that AUX does.

Wow, SVR4 is not proprietary..??..  Dont tell AT&T that!  :-)

]Write anything even remotely clever for this and it becomes a real
]headache to port "back" to standard SYSV.

No more of a headache than it would be to "port" from SVR4 or BSD back to SVR2.

]>I would be curoius to see a list of things that R4 (or AMIX) has that AUX 2.0
]>does not.  I tend to believe that that list would be almost empty.
]
]Streams?

AUX has streams.

]Jesper.
]
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